Bliss Comes To Ezra Hapgood
June, 1971
breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, "hooray, i'm under surveillance"?Ezra Hapgood, a solid, silent-majority-type public accountant, read in the newspapers the other day that he was one of some 18,000 U.S. civilians who'd been under secret Army surveillance for two years or more. Unlike most of his indignant fellow victims--including Illinois' Senator Adlai Stevenson III and Congressman Abner Mikva--Ezra was ecstatic over the disclosure that he'd been...
